However, the aforementioned hedge personasboth caught out absorbing public opinion riskin a way that prohibited defaulting furtherand transparently worrying about being tactically jettisonedforces further persona-owner investment to maintain confidence.

Panicked markets buy up persona platform hosting shares,plummeting public trust in total persona set,further extending austerity cycle to at leastthe next sixteen quarters.

His Red Lips

Fallback lizard position

Considering insect nutrient source

Neo deep fried fair food

Grasshopper farms briefly spike bat and certainbird populations

Reorganizing pest classifications

Sallow faced lizard merchants looking over the carnival

Their tongues searching with second sentience

The bats calling out in the twilight heatconfused by the sudden massive influx of competing predators

Melting in the music’s thick presence

Inside it and its playing mechanism

Ambiance not perfected or complete so much as solved

Crunchy insect batter

Tongue grows a second mind to search for you

Waving in the hot summer breeze

Finally cools off after midnightwith the dew so light licking

Precious boyfriend guillotine

Adam Veal’s poems have been published in CakeTrain, SpringGun, and Conjunctions. He is currently working on a manuscript about science fiction, copyright law, and panic. He lives in San Diego, California.